Domain

Definitions

• A process
  • listening for connections on a port
• A collection of objects
• A collection of policies
  • Some apply to attached domains
  • Some apply to all potentially attached domains
• A collection of domain attachments
  • Remote domain info (hostname and port, ...)
  • Applicable policies
  • Current proxies

Negotiation

To join your domain to someone else's, visit the remote domain's site, obtain an 'invite cert', and install that cert in your own domain. The invite cert is generated and signed by the remote domain, so it knows where the cert came from and why.

Once your domain knows about the remote domain, the two domains can determine gaps in their public policies and pose questions to you.

Random note possibly not entirely related to domains:

Class	Description
User	outside of VR connection
Agent	event generating object
Avatar	core-level in-world Agent
Character	system-limited instance of Avatar

See Policy Negotiation for a discussion of how policy negotiation works at each level.